"This is a big step towards us developing capabilities to exploit mobile opportunities," he said.
Your May 26 front-page article "States Chafing at U.S. Focus on Terrorism" reflects skepticism about our allocation of significant financing to states for developing capabilities to prevent or respond to an improvised explosive device.
Many are attempting to reduce this advantage by developing capabilities to threaten US space assets, in particular through denial and deception, signal jamming, and ground segment attack.
The number of countries developing capabilities to produce ballistic missiles and/or space launch vehicles is increasing; the list includes, among others, North Korea, Iran, India, and Pakistan.
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.
But it notes that neither document "identifies the specific criteria for employing a computer network attack against an adversary," though they "advocate developing capabilities to compete in this medium".
Of course the United States is also rapidly developing capabilities to counter-cyber attacks and to go on the offensive itself.
Not to be outdone in Asia is Chinese giant Tencent, whose AI research team Youtu Lab entered the fashion space recently by developing capabilities to analyze fashion trends among the young Chinese demographic.
Adversaries are developing capabilities to directly combat the asymmetric advantage that space gives US war fighters.
"Potential adversaries are rapidly developing capabilities to deny the US and its allies' use of space during a conflict," US Air Force Major General Robert D. Rego, the US Strategic Command official responsible for the center, told VICE News.
